FF/FG will actually think this is a vote winner.
A nice bonus for their core voters. The new SSIAs.

Banning Air B and B would be a great start. But the same people who benefit from Air B and B are the ones who'll get in on the garden shed racket.
Their needs are sacrosanct. Everyone else can lump it.

Nope. They're playing for keeps.

"Welcome to Ireland, here's your bunk.
Oh, you ARE Irish. Here's your shed."

Anyone pushing this doesn't believe we have a future. They have given up on our civilisation and they're ripping as much copper wire out of the walls as they can before they make their exit. This is well beyond being an emergency.

Martin and Harris will of course feign outrage in the Dáil.
"What have you got against property owners? I'm shocked to hear you suggest people would take advantage of this. Is this what you think of the property owners of this country?"
Et Cetera. Ad Nauseam.

This is in part an act of spite by Martin and Harris because of the stick they took over the housing bill. The big "fuck you" they're afraid to give the fuel protesters.

I don't want civil incredulity from the opposition on this. I want fire and brimstone rage. I want to hear unparliamentary language hurled at the scumbags enabling it.
We're well past the line in the sand where we should have said no more. This is madness #spéirgorm

This government is so bereft of ideas and energy it'll seize on any proposal from a right-wing think-tank which makes it look like it's doing something.
That makes it very dangerous.

The shed housing plan is the ultimate example of the governing Irish political ideology that everything must be set up for someone to make money from it.
Here's a national crisis being converted into an opportunity for people who're unaffected by it to screw money out of those who are.
A new low.

I would hope all the opposition parties speak out against the shed housing plan. And that we don't get any, "It could be a good scheme but it needs to be properly regulated," stuff from people with an eye on middle class votes.

A permanent version of the two mile Covid limit so that you spend your life, "Where everybody knows your name."

Maybe that's the new Independent Ireland policy. Everyone stay in the parish they were born in for life. So they develop the open minded and intelligent approach which characterises the party's public representatives.

🎶 Put a shack out the back Jack
Or a bed in a shed Fred
Don't need any standards
And the rent is tax free 🎶

Michael Collins' brother Danny is in the Examiner complaining that homeless people from Cork city are getting emergency accommodation in Glengarriff.
Independent Ireland's commitment to "our own" is a strange thing. "Foreigner" now apparently means someone from a different part of the same county.

You'll get more sense from a drunk tank than a think tank.

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A generation locked out of real housing, now told to rent sheds in back gardens.

This is not a solution. It is a distraction from the failure to build affordable homes.

We need proper housing, not unregulated, unsafe alternatives with no tenant protections.

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Why do we take a dump on everything good.

This is where I was lucky enough to grow up, the place that gave me my wonder for the natural world and all some see is a shortcut.

What is this Government’s vision for the future of young people in Ireland?

In at least one Dublin house, dozens are sharing overcrowded rooms and paying hundreds for a bed.

This is not a housing system. It is a return to tenement conditions.

€1,400 a month for a kennel in someone's back yard. Get your act together, Ireland - it's embarrassing

5 years from now Fine Gael will announce their "rent a cupboard" policy.

It will allow those renting garden sheds to get on the property ladder by renting one of the cupboards in the shed at market rates. #Spéirgorm

Jess from the Fast Show. A disheveled man standing in front of a shed. Rubbish is piled up beside it

Today I ‘ave mostly been living in a modular home.. #spéirghorm

Yep. I was never that fond of the clubbed up remixes back in the day because there was so much life in his music on its own.

FM John Swinney has “politely” turned down an invitation from Donald Trump to attend a state banquet at the White House next week, the Scottish Government has confirmed. 👇

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A different but also wonderful talent Amit Trivedi.
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This is also great. The wonderful voices of the Nooran Sisters combining with the king of film song AR Rahman.
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If you have the time, this is the full version of the song sampled below. Get to know this and it offers one of the most transcendental experiences possible in music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had one of the world's great voices but here you see too the band's contribution.
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There is all the stuff that drive us nuts and then there are things like this which will lift the mood of anyone with ears to hear.
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